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	FJX~SLAVE STORIES	Page One	~
	(Texa3)
		HANNAH SCOTT was born
		in slavery, in Alabama.
	~	She does riot know her
		age but s~,s she was
		grown when her last
		master, Bat Peterson,
		set her free, Hannah
		lives,with her grandson
		in a two-.rOoi~ house near
		the railroad tracks, in
		Houst on, Texas . Unable to	~.
		walk: because of a paralytic
		stroke, Hannah asked her
		grandson to lift her from
		the bed. to a chair, from
		which she told. her story.




	si ‚ ra Ove de chair a mite clos er t o de at ove . Dere ‚ ‘ s better, ‘cause de heat kind. of soople me up. Ain‘t nothin‘ left of me but some skin arid bones ‚ hohow0

	“Lemme see n~, I ‚ s born in . Alabama and. I think dey calls it Fayet te County. M~Jfle‘S flt3JflC Was Ardissa and she ‘long to I~tarse Clark fl~cclea, bat us chilien allus call him \1hite~ Pa. Miss Hetty, his wife, we calls her White ~a.

	$11 nevei~cnowec1 my own pa, ~ cause he ‚ long to ~nother man and was sold away I fore ~ old ‘nough to know hirn. Mama has five tis • chilien, but dey all dead. ‘ceptin‘ me, Dey didn‘t have no raarriage back dœi like now. Dey just ~U~v5 black folks t oßether in de s ight of m~n and not in d.c s ight f

a, and dey put s dem asu.nde r, too,

“Marse ~ccles didn1t have no big pince an~ only nine slaves. I guess

he what ~a calls ‚ poor folks ‚ ~ but he ~ mi~ht~r GOOd to he black folks • I

‘member when he sold ue tQ~et~e~8~,, ~ and White Ma bz~eak down and ~

cry when old Bat puts us in de waV‘n Rfld t&CC$ US. 0ff to Arlcansas. .1 beared.
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